Tia and her brother Tony can do it all... Their minds have more powers than most children have toys. It comes in handy against these villains with many the acting chop: Ray Milland, Bette Davis and Christopher Lee.

The Spell is a TV Movie from 1977 that was made to capitalize on the success of Carrie. The story concerns a brat who starts using her powers to get back at those who annoy her in her miserable existence. Which is, everyone. Co-starring a young Helen Hunt as her equally bratty sister.

Little girl Cathy was possessed by her evil dead aunt... And now she's offing every else off in the family with the help of her doll. And even better, she curses up a storm.That is not very nice, young lady.

An eleven year old girl uses her powers to revenge her mother's death with the help of zombies. That's right... she summons up dead people from a cemetery to do her bidding. An eleven year old. Only in the 70's!

The Movie: Jennifer (1978) The Girl: Jennifer (Lisa Pelikan)The Power: Psychic Powers with the emphasis on control over animals

My favorite of all the Carrie rip-offs. Jennifer is a poor country bumpkin who uses her smarts to get into a fancy private school. All the rich girls immediately hate her and start to torture her mercilessly. Soon she'll use her natural power over animals to teach them a lesson or two! Co-starring Bert Convy and one groovy title song!

Brian De Palma takes another stab at mind power in this entertaining thriller which features Carrie's Amy Irving as a girl with a high level of Psychic power that is being controlled by evil John Cassavetes.The ending is a doozie!

Sarah the wallflower watches her sister get into the most popular sorority house (equipped with the bitchiest of girls at college) while she gets stuck in one that is run by weirdo house mother Shelley Winters. Soon she's using her Carrie-esque powers to ward off the bitches and perhaps land hunky Paul (Tony Bill, the director of My Bodyguard!)

Linda Blair plays Rachel, a nice girl who suddenly finds her cousin Julia living with her and her family after the cousin's parents and housekeeper are wiped our mysteriously one day. Julia is hiding a deep, dark secret that involves occultism and witchery. Rachel figures it all out and has to deal with it as well as the bitch staying in her room.

Unfortunately the power here has Laura Mars seeing through the eyes of a killer, and not much being able to do about it. With the help of a uni-browed policeman (Tommy Lee Jones) this groovy high fashion photographer eventually attempts to hunt down the killer and hopefully not get killed in the process.

Lynn-Holly Johnson's Jan is supernaturally drawn in to a 30 year old mystery involving a dead girl in the woods. Soon she finds it literally possessing her and her sister (Kyle Richards) in this well made Disney film.

Ursa has the strength and power of Superman, but with zero warmth and compassion. When she's with Non and Zod, they can take over any world in any galaxy... That is until Superman outwits them all. Ursa is also a super babe.

Supergirl, Who is she? Superman's cousin...duh. An in that photo, she might also be a fan of Nazi Germany. Supergirl also stars a clearly embarrased Faye Dunaway who develops the power to camp it up and seduce Hart Bochner.

Stephen King really gives little Drew Barrymore the power in this fun 80's horror flick about a girl who can burn just about anything. Her dad naturally has telekinesis. Maybe someone should ask him if he has another daughter named Carrie...

To quote the poster:
She is an ancient prophecy fulfilled. A golden God-child possessed with a mystic gift. A gift which grew in strength as she grew in years. A gift about to be put to the ultimate test: Innocence against Evil... Plus Tanya Roberts looks hot in a loin cloth.

Brigitte Nielsen is given the power of super strength to defeat the evil Queen and her army... But she must resist the notion of love as it will weaken her. But who could resist the charm and sex appeal of Arnold Schwarzenegger?

This short-lived show about young people with powers ran on NBC for only 15 episodes. Courtney Cox played the cute resident Telekinetic kid... Ah, way back in the 80's she was known for being the girl from Bruce Springsteen video, Alex P. Keaton's girlfriend and she still had her original face.

Behold the power and awesomeness of Vicki the robot! Created by good natured family man and super nerd Ted Lawson (Dick Christie), Vicki soon becomes a part of the family. Expect super strength, a walking wikipedia page and zany robot antics to ensue. Small Wonder ends up being the most unintentionally creepy show of the 80s.

Dario Argento mixes slasher with supernatural in this tale of a girl at a Swiss boarding school with the ability to control insects and has a psychic link (what else?) with a madman who is hanging around killing girls in gruesome fashion.

The three ladies of the title here do their best to conjure up the perfect man one dark & stormy night over many cocktails... And he shows up... But in the form of Jack Nicholson as Daryl Van Horne (and very possible, The Devil) The Witches Of Eastwick is a ton of goofy, good-looking fun.

Meredith Salenger's aunt Felice shows up one day and turns her family upside down as she brings along her voodoo skills and the hots for her dad. Aunt Felice is not only hot for her dad's bod, but she also wants hers... to live in forever. Ca-reepy!

Another horror movie, another wallflower. Lisa comes into her own by somehow taking on the powers of her dead friends. She eventually gets enough skills for a final showdown with Freddy in this highly entertaining and visually inventive entry in the popular franchise.

Rosanna Arquette is a Medium who's pretty good at predicting deaths... and unwittingly witnessing murders. From the director of Flash Gordon the movie (Mike Hodges). Sadly this movie does not have a soundtrack by Queen.

Teen Witch started out as Teen Wolf for girls! Thankfully they changed the wolf to witchery and ended up with this hilarious and endearing cult movie with a memorable (for varying reasons) soundtrack. Take that!

The Movie: The Guardian (1990)The Girl: Camilla (Jenny Seagrove)The Power: Occultism, The ability to have sex with trees

A couple with a baby find themselves with a hot British nanny in this underrated horror film from William Friedkin. Turns out the hot British nanny is a crazy kind of druid... There will be tree trunk lovin', oh yes, there will be tree trunk lovin'...

This New Zealand made horror film finds Jack and his sister separately put up for adoption. Jack's life is full of misery, while Dora has it a lot better. She uses her extra sensory powers to track down Jack, but hopefully before it's too late as his evil step-sisters really have it in for him. A criminally underrated movie.

By 1996 witchery in movies seemed a bit out of vogue. Thankfully The Craft brings it back into fashion and finds the good girl vying with the evil bitches of the world... inside and outside of her little group.

Carrie White is long gone, but don't forget about her sister! Seriously, The Rage Carrie 2 could have easily been a terrible film... And some too easily chalk it up as such. But for those who can see beyond a sequel number will find lots of interesting stuff here. Director Katt (Poison Ivy) Shea (who replaced the original director a few weeks into filming and revamped the film) paints Rachel as a pretty strong character. The turmoil she goes through here feels real. Oh, and the showdown at the end is gore-tastic.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Wes Craven's Deadly Blessing is a creepy tale of a three women (Maren Jensen, Susan Buckner & Sharon Stone) who get mixed up with a nutty Amish sect headed up by a wackjob Ernest Borgnine. Occasional bouts of the supernatural also seem to get in their way. Stay away from the country, ladies!

Plenty of chills to be found here in this underrated horror effort from the guy who would shortly be better known for bringing Freddy Krueger to life. Sadly this picture (a box office disappointment) has still yet to acquire a DVD release in the United States. There are excellent transfers of it on that format in the UK and Australia. The Australian Disc from the company Umbrella even has a commentary by Wes moderated by David Gregory. So it might be worth hunting down if you're a fan.

Best Picture
Who will win: The Social Network
Who should win (of the nominees): The Kids Are All Right
Who really should be here: The Ghost Writer, The Town, Please Give

Best Director
Who will win: David Fincher, The Social Network
Who should win (of the nominees): David O. Russell
Who really should be here: Ben Affleck (The Town), Roman Polanski (The Ghost Writer), Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World) Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are All Right)

Best Actor
Who will win: Colin Firth
Who should win (of the nominees): Colin Firth
Who really should be here: Michael Douglas (Solitary Man), Ryan Gosling (All Good Things)

Best Actress
Who will win: Natalie Portman
Who should win (of the nominees): Annette Benning
Who really should be here: Julianne Moore (The Kids Are All Right), Emma Stone (Easy A), Kirsten Dunst (All Good Things)

Best Supporting Actor
Who will win: Christian Bale
Who should win (of the nominees): Jeremy Renner
Who really should be here: Frank Langella (All Good Things, Wall Street 2) Kevin Kline, (The Extra Man), John Malkovich (Secretariat, Red)

About Cinema Du Meep

Cinema Du Meep revved it's way into the world in January of 2009.
In addition to working for Independent filmmakers like John Sayles, I've since largely dedicated my time with this website to help keep the memories of films past and present alive for the future.

Little old Meep was Raised in Hell's Kitchen and Brooklyn and found his true home in the dilapidated movie houses and palaces in Times Square. Being naturally drawn to the world of movie shows like a bee to honey, Meep would frequent them as much as possible; leaving himself exposed to some of the mildest and wildest sorts of films... As well as the crazies in them!

I have been have known to occasionally wander down memory lane. Care to take a trip down it with me-ep?